Should We Illuminate the Black Box of the Small Bowel Mucosa From Above or Below?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 917-919

  Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIODYSPLASIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; ILEUM DISEASE; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; JEJUNUM DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE;

EID: 84864102572     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.04.017     Document Type: Editorial

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